Alan Stern
2015: NASA’s Year of the Dwarf Planet
Together, the space probes Dawn and New Horizons have been in flight for a collective 17 years. One remained close…
Meet the New Horizons Team in a Live Google+ Hangout
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft just woke up from its long nap, and now it's on final approach towards its next…
Watch Pluto and Charon Engage in Their Orbital Dance
Now here's something I guarantee you've never seen before: a video of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon…
New Horizons Wakes Up for the Summer
While many kids in the U.S. are starting their school summer vacations, New Horizons is about to get back to work! Speeding…
Proposed Balloon Ride Would Let You See The Blackness Of Space
Doesn't that look fun? A startup company is proposing to send customers 19 miles (30 kilometers) into the air via…
Golden Spike Still Needs Your Help to Get to the Moon
Last December the Golden Spike Company announced its plans to enable private-sector lunar exploration missions which would be feasible, profitable, and…
New Horizons’ Pluto Stamp is One Step Closer to Becoming a Reality
A little over a year ago Alan Stern, principal investigator on the New Horizons mission, announced the team's plans to…
New Horizons May Need to ‘Bail Out’ to Dodge Debris, Rings and Moons in the Pluto System
Artist's concept shows the New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 encounter with Pluto and its moon, Charon. Credit: JHUAPL/SwRI Since…
What Has the Kuiper Belt Taught Us About The Solar System?
Over 4 billion miles (6.7 billion km) from the Sun, the Kuiper Belt is a vast zone of frozen worlds…
Fifth Moon Found Around Pluto
This just in! Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a new moon around distant Pluto, bringing the…